Maybe, maybe not. Is the potential benefit even worth fighting over? Style is just full of so many subjective details that every discussion ends in. And everybody has their favorite it's un-fucking-readable. My oppinion converged on "Fight it out and tell me what options in $formatter I need to set. Don't even tell me reasonings, just the options. leaves room". I'd rather drink coffee than have the next horizontal real estate vs. parameter alignment debate.

The argument to match clauses/scoping for example is weird in a world where a formatter automatically applies indentation. It might make sense when you have to manually check them on print-outs without an Editor. I'd argue GNU style fulfills that role even better or Horstmann if you care about vertical real estate (or be daring and combine the two). And now everyone hates me.